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From ‘Ratched’ to ‘Inspector Morse’: Why we all love a prequel – The Independent
With the success of Netflix’s resurrection of Nurse Ratched comes a question almost as old as Hollywood itself: why are we so obsessed with the story before a story? David Barnett investigates
Nurse Ratched appears on the very first page of Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, and her presence looms large over both the rest of the book and the 1975 film adaptation.
She is the bête noire of Randle Patrick McMurphy, rebellious inmate of the Salem State Hospital (played so memorably by Jack Nicholson in the movie), the head nurse who rules the mental hospital with an iron fist covered not so much by a velvet glove, but vibrant nail polish.
Known to the inmates as Big …
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